This appears to be a packaging bug for Debian Lenny and Ubuntu Intrepid, Gnash can find the boost_python library, but can't use it
because it appears to have the boost configuration wrong for the compiler version. Removing the development packages for Boost 1.34 and upgrading to Boost 1.35 or Boost 1.37 fixes the problem. On Fedora 10 and 11, it's always worked with the default packages.

This is to report that dropping any boost-python package
and reinstalling it doesn't fix the issue.
I did verify that the drop was effective, and gnash correctly
dumped an ERROR for not finding the library in that case.

I added support for a --enable-python option, and made building the python module conditional based on this. It also uses python-config to get the headers and libraries needed for Python development. Now all somebody has to do is fix the module so it actually compiles.:-) Anyway, checked in as of revno 10794.

Just as a note, Sugar Labs is using a modified version of this for Gnash->Sugar integration.